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Parent's greatest success has been in television, most notably with ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' and [[Tracey Ullman]]'s [[Sketch comedy|comedy sketch]] series ''[[Tracey Takes On...]]'', serving as a producer and writer for both. She also wrote episodes of ''[[The Smothers Brothers Show]]'', ''[[The Carol Burnett Show]]'', ''[[Rhoda]]'', [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''[[Amazing Stories (TV series)|Amazing Stories]]'', and ''[[Finder of Lost Loves]]'', and the [[variety show|musical variety]] [[Television special|special]] ''[[Beverly Sills|Sills]] and [[Carol Burnett|Burnett]] at the [[Metropolitan Opera House|Met]]''. |
Parent's greatest success has been in television, most notably with ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' and [[Tracey Ullman]]'s [[Sketch comedy|comedy sketch]] series ''[[Tracey Takes On...]]'', serving as a producer and writer for both. She also wrote episodes of ''[[The Smothers Brothers Show]]'', ''[[The Carol Burnett Show]]'', ''[[Rhoda]]'', [[Steven Spielberg]]'s ''[[Amazing Stories (TV series)|Amazing Stories]]'', and ''[[Finder of Lost Loves]]'', and the [[variety show|musical variety]] [[Television special|special]] ''[[Beverly Sills|Sills]] and [[Carol Burnett|Burnett]] at the [[Metropolitan Opera House|Met]]''. |
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Parent is the winner of a [[CableACE Award]] and two [[Emmy Award|Emmys]], and has been nominated for an additional twelve Emmys and two [[Writers Guild of America]] |
Parent is the winner of a [[CableACE Award]] and two [[Emmy Award|Emmys]], and has been nominated for an additional twelve Emmys and two [[Writers Guild of America Award]]s. |
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Gail Parent is an American television and screenwriter, television producer, and author.
Parent's writing career began with a 1971 episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The following year her novel Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York City, which chronicled its unattractive, overweight, Jewish heroine's romantic misadventures in Manhattan, became a best-seller that later served as the basis of a film starring Jeannie Berlin. Although the screenplay was adapted by someone else, she penned the scripts for Barbra Streisand's The Main Event (1979) and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004).
Parent's greatest success has been in television, most notably with The Golden Girls and Tracey Ullman's comedy sketch series Tracey Takes On..., serving as a producer and writer for both. She also wrote episodes of The Smothers Brothers Show, The Carol Burnett Show, Rhoda, Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories, and Finder of Lost Loves, and the musical variety special Sills and Burnett at the Met.
Parent is the winner of a CableACE Award and two Emmys, and has been nominated for an additional twelve Emmys and two Writers Guild of America Awards.